BANNU, July 13 (TNS): In an\u00a0explosion\u00a0near an election rally of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal on Friday morning four people were killed and 14 severely injured in Bannu.
\nEarlier reports had stated that the explosion targetted the convoy of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam-Fazl\u2019s Akram Khan Durrani, who is contesting on an MMA ticket from NA-35 Bannu.
\nInitial reports revealed that 14 people have been injured in the attack. The wounded were shifted to DHQ Bannu in ambulances and police vehicles.
\nThe RPO informed that the blast occurred 50 metres away from the rally site, adding that 40 policemen were deployed at the venue.
\nReports that Durrani was the target of the attack were put to rest when the JUI-F leader showed up at the hospital to tend to his supporters.
\nDurrani has served as the Federal Minister for Housing and Works in the last federal government.
\nDurrani is contesting the July 25 election against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairperson Imran Khan.
\nThis is the second major incident of pre-poll violence in the country.
\nEarlier in the week, Awami National Party leader Haroon Bilour, among 22 others, was martyred in a suicide attack in Yakatoot neighbourhood of Peshawar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BANNU, July 13 (TNS): In an\u00a0explosion\u00a0near an election rally of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal on Friday morning four people were killed and 14 severely injured in Bannu. Earlier reports had stated that the explosion targetted the convoy of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam-Fazl\u2019s Akram Khan Durrani, who is contesting on an MMA ticket from NA-35 Bannu. Initial reports revealed that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71398,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71395\/revisions\/71398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}